Scene: The Gladstone Wants You to Come Up to Their Rooms

<em>Jewel Net of Indra</em><br />
<strong>Gareth Bate</strong><br />
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Inspired by the Buddhist Indra's Net, which explains the world's interconnectedness by describing it as a net of jewels, each with many factes reflecting infinitely in all directions. Bates has painted hundreds of small portraits on mirrored circles, which reflect you watching them as they watch you.<br />
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<em>Corbin Smith/Torontoist</em>

<strong>UA Collective</strong><br />
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Imagine a room-size printing press, but in place of each letter is a cube, and on each face of the cubes is anything from a letter to a passage of text to a symbol. Now imagine spinning all the cubes and then printing the result—Guttenburg rolling the dice.<br />
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<em>Corbin Smith/Torontoist</em>

<em>Uphoarding</em><br />
<strong>Fugitive Glue</strong><br />
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Even mundane objects have a story—a design, a production process, an afterlife. <em>Uphoarding</em> explores the lifecycle of the very ordinary propane tank—and the environmental implications of the equally ordinary backyard barbeque in the process.<br />
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<em>Corbin Smith/Torontoist</em>

<em>10,000 Untitleds</em><br />
<strong>WE-3</strong><br />
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Hoarders hang on to everything they can, but what do all those stowed-away objects mean? <em>Untitleds</em> considers the notion of collection as sheer accumulation as thousands of numbers paper slips—objects without significance or substance—flutter in the breeze.<br />
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<em>Corbin Smith/Torontoist</em>

WHAT: While the Metro Toronto Convention Centre has been taken over by the behemoth that is the Interior Design Show, the Gladstone Hotel offers a more manageable, and offbeat, exhibition this weekend. Come Up To My Room is marking its ninth year, featuring a few pieces of furniture (log-chairs, graphic wardrobes) and interior design (spiky geometric ceiling fixtures), and nearly a dozen room-size installations.